Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] forms [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available . |
| 2 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 3 | Ageism is one of the most insidious forms of discrimination , one which is widely accepted and rarely challenged . |
| 4 | Once you 've mastered the basics and feel confident enough about casting and are looking for adventure , night fishing for sea trout is one of the most exciting forms of fly fishing . |
| 5 | Semi-contact karate is one of the most popular forms of competition fighting . |
| 6 | Listed below are many of the most popular forms of exercise and their activity values on a scale of I to 10 . |
| 7 | TODAY looks at the odds in the most popular forms of gambling . |
| 8 | Endurance racing has remained one of the most popular forms of motor racing and , apart from the Formula One World Championship , the Sports Car World Championship is the longest surviving World Championship even , although it has appeared under different guises since first seen in 1953 . |
| 9 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |
| 10 | The following are some of the most popular forms of advertising : |
| 11 | This last procedure , ‘ the exploitation of formal resemblance to establish connections of meaning ’ , Culler characterizes as ‘ the basic activity of literature ’ ( 1988:4 ) , and it is in this sense that the pun can be seen as a cognitive model which accounts for the ‘ literariness ’ of even the most rigorous forms of language use . |
| 12 | The catch cries of ‘ I belong to Paul ’ , ‘ I belong to Peter ’ , ‘ I belong to Apollos ’ and perhaps ‘ I belong to Christ ’ ( 1:12 ) were merely subtle forms of self-advertisement . |
| 13 | The most complex and highly evolved forms of colonialism in the insect world are those created by the relations of the wasps and bees , the ants . |
| 14 | Indeed , it has recently been suggested that an absence from the colon of certain of these enzymes , especially specific forms of cytochrome P450 , may be involved in the comparatively high incidence rate of carcinogenesis in this organ . |
| 15 | The threat of prime ministerial resignation may also serve to whip the Cabinet into line when less subtle forms of persuasion have failed . |
| 16 | Will those organisations operating the new technology continue to operate in the standard bureaucratic form or are we likely to see a continued increase in the use of more flexible , less hierarchical forms of organisation . |
| 17 | Less direct forms of allusion are practised in different sections of society . |
| 18 | But it is not adequate for many of the tasks of the modern capitalist state which has to intervene increasingly according to a ‘ substantive ’ rather than ‘ formal ’ rationality ( Therborn 1978 : 54 , 89 ) based on highly specialized forms of expertise ( e.g. Dunleavy 1982 : 196–205 ) — for example , in production itself . |
| 19 | He called for Russia 's relations with the other union republics and with the union itself to be regulated by separate treaties , and for a union treaty to be renegotiated by a conference of parliamentarians from the union republics which would work out " new , mutually acceptable forms of community " without " prior political and economic conditions " . |
| 20 | It is a warm , mostly oceanic world with only rudimentary forms of life , whose few land masses had been restructured and reatmosphered as holiday havens for the rich . |
| 21 | Excluding the interesting view of God offered by the various sects , there are apparently different forms of theism promoted by Jews , Christians , Moslems , Sikhs , Hindus and perhaps Buddhists in Britain alone . |
| 22 | So the first stage of identifying modern multimedia is to focus on its power to draw together different forms of communication , smoothly integrating them within a digital environment , and providing access to the stored information using computer systems which are fast , friendly and , above all , interactive . |
| 23 | Whilst paying lip service to the sporting values of the public schools , suburban man was busy with less physically and morally taxing forms of exercise . |
| 24 | Brian McGowan , chief executive of Williams Holdings , the acquisitive industrial conglomerate , says : ‘ Certain highly visible forms of manufacturing — shipbuilding , steel , automotive — have declined . |
| 25 | There has been a general shift to less visible forms of taxation such as payroll ( or national insurance ) and indirect taxes . |
| 26 | As a result , we are still designed around extremely basic forms of behaviour ; forms geared towards individual and social survival , despite the fact that people now live in societies where such behaviour is largely redundant for simple survival . |
| 27 | There are other , less obvious forms of competition . |
| 28 | Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life . |
| 29 | There are so many forms of fear . |
| 30 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |